unwashed hands
Skipped the sink
Unwashed hands are hands that haven't been cleaned, carrying the germs and grime of whatever they've touched.
The phrase appears most often in contexts of hygiene and contamination: Unwashed hands spread disease, Don't touch the food with unwashed hands.
Figuratively, it can suggest moral taint or complicity—dirty hands in the metaphorical sense.
- dirtyNot clean
- germsMicroscopic disease agents
- bacteriaNucleus-free single-celled organisms
- grimyCoated in stubborn dirt
- filthyThoroughly unclean
soap · sink · faucet · contamination · cross contamination · raw chicken · illness · stomach bug · flu season · grubby · fingernails · infection · hygiene · scrubbing · doorknob · public restroom · restroom · food poisoning
- grooming problemsbad breath, body odor, dandruff, greasy hair, frizzy hair
- germaphobiagerms, germaphobe, hygiene, cleanliness, sanitizer
- fecal-oral diseasescholera, typhoid, norovirus, rotavirus, shigellosis